Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the scene following , Celia and Rosalind are conversing in prose about Orlando when Duke Frederick enters in verse , ‘ his eyes full of anger ’ , to banish Rosalind ( 1 . |
| 2 | After the trial Orchin , Richmond and McCready were held in prison for about a month on the charge relating to the unlicensed pistol . |
| 3 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 4 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 5 | Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 6 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 7 | Mark Wiggins was described in court as a ’ Mr Fixit ’ who sold the drug to Denise Jones for four pounds . |
| 8 | When Roger Stubbs — now Bob Worcester 's number two at MORI — left the market research unit , Wanless was put in charge at just 24 , ‘ an unheard of young age for a job like that ’ . |
| 9 | A Mr. Nichols was put in charge as a surface foreman and Thomas Jones , working on the stamps , said to Barratt , " they is sure to work " . |
| 10 | When General Dankl 's First Army marched , to reach and take Lublin and Cholm , Auffenberg was to move in unison in the same direction . |
| 11 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 12 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 13 | Peter Pan , the boy from Never-never Land and his arch enemy Captain Hook are engaging in combat in Oxford tomorrow night . |
| 14 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 15 | If the answer was that American global strategy required an allocation of priorities in geographical terms could south Korea be abandoned in favour of a stand being made in Japan or elsewhere ? |
| 16 | St Anthony being boiled in oil with a companionable gaggle of fellow martyrs ; St Anthony pierced by crossbow bolts fired by The Fat Controller in chain mail ; and in the central , triumphant panel — his white body as flexibly two-dimensional as bacon rind — St Anthony being sawn in half , lengthwise . |
| 17 | She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . |
| 18 | Yet Amalgamemnon is steeped in anxiety about the fate of the novel and other forms of individual creativity in a world of secondary orality where humanist pursuits are fast becoming obsolete . |
| 19 | This System Description has been prepared to assist the staff who will control and use the computer system during the period in which the text of the New OED is edited in preparation for the publication of the integrated , paper edition . |
| 20 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that the seal from Knossos was capped in gold at either end like the one from a Third Dynasty level at Ur . |
| 22 | Suddenly Rokeya was standing in front of her , looking down at her . |
| 23 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 24 | This considered in accordance with AFHQ FX 75383 dated 14 [ Robertson 's order of 14 May -this confirms that Low 's order of 17 May was issued in response to the Robertson order ] . |
| 25 | That application was refused and Reynolds was remanded in custody for 4 weeks . |
| 26 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 27 | Twenty four year old Darren Gale from Worcester was remanded in custody for seven days . |
| 28 | Following the Basque elections on Oct. 28 [ see p. 37785 ] José Antonio Ardanza was confirmed in office as the lendakari ( Premier ) of the Basque government . |
| 29 | Aristotle looked on democracy with a more tempered suspicion , but clearly viewed popular participation in politics and the popular leaders with aristocratic disdain , as did the historian Thucydides ; while the comic dramatist Aristophanes mocked popular rule and its leaders time and time again , even in the years when Athens was locked in war with anti-democratic Sparta . |
| 30 | A report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua on Oct. 4 stated that the party had dropped " for good " its original structure of central committee , presidium and chairmanship ; a 169-member Small Hural was elected in place of the central committee , and an 11-member committee in place of the presidium . |